Etienne Gaudrain, Researcher

Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, Inserm U1028, Université Lyon 1
Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics,
Lyon, France

University Medical Center Groningen, ENT Department,
University of Groningen, Research School of Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience,
Groningen, Netherlands

Contact details

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Postal address

Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics (CAP)
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL – CNRS UMR5292)
Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier - Bâtiment 462 - Neurocampus
95 boulevard Pinel
69675 Bron Cedex
France
UMCG, Afdeling KNO
Huispostcode BB21
PO Box 30.001
9700 RB Groningen
Netherlands
 

Employment history

2014/11present
Senior Researcher — Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, France Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics' team . My work concerns the perception of vocal characteristic and concurrent speech perception, in normal-hearing and cochlear implant listeners. I'm affiliated with the Graduate School of Mechanics, Energetic, Civil Engineering and Acoustics (MEGA).
2014/10present
Visiting Researcher — University Medical Center Groningen, ENT Department, Groningen, Netherlands Deniz Başkent's Speech Perception group .
2012/09 — 2014/10
Senior Researcher — University Medical Center Groningen, ENT Department, Groningen, Netherlands Deniz Başkent's Speech Perception group . I co-supervised, with Pr. Başkent, three PhD students working on phonemic restoration and voice perception in normal-hearing and cochlear-implant listeners.
2010/01 — 2012/08
Research Fellow — MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK Line manager: Robert. P. Carlyon. My work focused on concurrent speech perception in cochlear implants. I developed Zebra-speech, a method to mix two speech signals in a purely sequential way while preserving intelligibility, in order to investigate the sequential aspects of concurrent speech perception. In another study, using pulse trains in direct stimulation in cochlear-implants, I compared rate-pitch perception to regularity perception, and found that the two were uncorrelated. While at the CBSU I got involved in local collaborations with Matthew H. Davis, Lorina Nacci, Joni Holmes, Susan E. Gathercole and Richard E. Turner. I also received an Honorary Contract from Cambridge University Hospitals (Addenbrooke’s Hospital), in order to have full access to the Emmeline Centre for Hearing Implants.
2008/01 — 2009/12
Research Associate — Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, University of Cambridge, UK Supervisor: Roy D. Patterson. My work focused on auditory integration of speech features, and in particular glottal pulse rate (GPR) and vocal tract length (VTL). I have quantitatively described the role of GPR and VTL in the perception of speaker identity. This work initiated a reflexion on the principal dimensions of the representation of speech in the auditory system. In relation with this reflexion, I contributed to the redefinition of the notion of timbre in musical voice and musical instruments. While at the CNBH, I initiated collaborations with Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany), Damien Gabriel (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland) and Fabien Perrin (CNRS, Lyon, France).
2004/10 — 2007/09
PhD – Neurosciences Sensorielles, Comportement, Cognition (UMR 5020), CNRS – Université de Lyon, France Supervisors: Nicolas Grimault and Jean-Christophe Béra. Title: “Role of auditory streaming for concurrent voices segregation.” My thesis work was an effort to adapt the Auditory Scene Analysis theory from psychoacoustics to speech perception. The first step has been the design and validation of an objective method to evaluate pitch based streaming with vowels. Spectral and temporal pitch cues have then been manipulated and investigated using spectral smearing, noise-band vocoders and Straight. Most of the work has been performed in collaboration with Eric W. Healy (Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Ohio State University, USA). The thesis is available at tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00280604/fr/ (mostly in French).

Education / Degrees

Grants

  • ERA-NET CoSySpeech, Groningen (2021, €844,000), partner, coordinator: Sarah Verhulst, University of Ghent.
  • Sonova, Switzerland (2019), co-applicant with Deniz Başkent, University of Groningen, and Gonca Sennaroǧlu, Hacettepe University.
  • A_LEA, AAP CNRS Interdisciplinarité, Lyon (2018, €13,000), co-applicant with Olivier Crouzet, Université de Nantes.
  • PhD grant CeLyA, Lyon (2016), co-applicant with Etienne Parizet, LVA, INSA, Lyon.
  • VICI Grant of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) (2017, €1,500,000), main applicant: Deniz Başkent, University of Groningen.
  • 2+2 PhD grant from Advanced Bionics GmbH and Faculty of Medical Sciences, Groningen (2014, €265,000).
  • Travel grant from the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (2009, €130).
  • Travel grant from the Guarantors of Brain to attend Interspeech 2009 (£300).
  • Travel grants of the Société Française d’Acoustique for the 151st ASA meeting (2006, €900) and for the 10th Congrès Français d’Acoustique (2010, €450).
  • Doctoral grant of the Région Rhône-Alpes, 3 years (2004-2007, 3 × €30,000).

Memberships

  • Acoustical Society of America (Full Member) since 2006.
  • Société Française d’Acoustique since 2004.
  • International Speech Communication Association in 2009-2010.

Responsibilities and Services

Ad-hoc reviewer for:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Ear and Hearing
  • Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Attention, Perception and Psychophysics
  • Music Perception

Organisation of meetings:

Other services:

  • Working group Visioconferencing, CRNL (2020).
  • Working group Human auditory research facilities, CRNL (2014-2016).
  • Postdoc representative at the IT Steering Group, MRC CBSU (2012).
  • Implementation and maintenance of the Acoustic Scale Wiki (http://www.acousticscale.org/), CNBH, Cambridge (2008).
  • Student representative at the laboratory committee, UMR 5020, Lyon (2007).

Teaching and Supervision

PhD Student supervision:

  • Moïra-Phoebé Huet, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (2016-2019).
  • Nawal El Boghdady, University Medical Center Groningen (2014-2018).
  • Jeanne Clarke, University Medical Center Groningen (2012-2016).
  • Pranesh Bhargava, University Medical Center Groningen (2012-2016). Defended 26 September 2016.

Other students:

  • Floris Rooteveel, Biomedical Engineering Bachelor student, University Medical Center Groningen (2018).
  • Martin Lenglet, Biomedical Engineering Master student, Phelma, INP, Grenoble (2018), co-supervised with Olivier Macherey, Gaston Hilkhuysen, LMA, Marseille.
  • Victor Fletcher, Biomedical Engineering Bachelor student, University Medical Center Groningen (2017).
  • Thirsa Huisman, Biomedical Engineering Master student, University Medical Center Groningen (2017).
  • Sem Foreman, Life Science and Technology Bachelor student, Honours College Groningen (2016), co-supervised with Olivier Crouzet, University of Nantes.
  • Michael Chesnay, Biomedical Engineering Master student, University Medical Center Groningen (2014).
  • Lucas Stam, Biomedical Engineering Master student, University Medical Center Groningen (2013-2014).
  • Su Li and Vin Shen Ban, Neuroscience undergraduate, Part II Research Project, University of Cambridge (2009).
  • Alessandro Binetti, summer student, Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Cambridge (2008).
  • Guillaume Detta-Colli, Cognitive Science undergraduate, MSc Research Project, Université de Lyon (2007).

Teaching:

  • Speech signal processing in Matlab, Master of Acoustics, Université Lyon 1 (2015-2021).
  • Speech Perception, M.Sc. of Behavioural, Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen (2013-2019).
  • Signal and Hearing, M.Sc. of Applied Cognitive Sciences, Université Lyon 2 (2005-2006).
  • Acoustics and Continuum Mechanics, B.Sc. of Mechanics, Université Lyon 1 (2005-2006).
  • Acoustics and Hearing, lectures for Sound Technicians, Grim-Edif, Lyon. (2005-2006).
  • Signal Processing (Matlab), M.Sc. of Mechanics, Université Lyon 1 (2005).
  • Communication Technologies, B.Sc. of Psychology, Université Lyon 2 (2004).

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